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Architecture & Design NOW presents Mason White of Lateral Office
Architecture / Geography / Environment
6 pm | March 4, 2019
Room L1060
Free admission, everyone welcome!
Mason White is a founding Partner at Lateral Office, with Lola Sheppard. He is an Associate Professor at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design at the University of Toronto. White received his Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech, and his Master of Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design.
His work, research and teaching invites readings of architecture as a by-product of complex networks within ecology and culture. White’s recent research and design work has focused on public infrastructures in northern and remote contexts.
Lateral Office has received numerous awards and recognition, including: the 2016 National Urban Design Award from the RAIC; 2014 Special Mention from the Venice Biennale in Architecture; 2013 Progressive Architecture Award; the 2011 Gold Award, North America from the Holcim Foundation; the 2011 Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York; and the 2010 Professional Prix de Rome from the Canada Council for the Art. His practice has participated in the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the 2014 Venice Biennale in Architecture, where they were awarded Special Mention from the international jury for the project “Arctic Adaptations.” Lateral Office is the recipient of three Faculty Design Awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.[1]
[1] https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/people/core-faculty/mason-white.
Image courtesy of speaker.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.
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